One thing I liked about The Idea of North was the inclusion, mostly towards the end, of works which inspired Harris or which were inspired by Harris. His aesthetic lives on.

Rockwell Kent's Icebergs, Greenland, also painted in the 1930s, looks at the same Arctic territory Harris explored.


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CBC News' Sima Sahar Zerehi has a photo-heavy feature describing how the decay of an American military base from the Second World War in Greenland threatens catastrophe.

It's an image that requires a double-take: a pristine Arctic landscape in Greenland, dotted with rusted debris from an abandoned World War II military base ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes this weekend is going to be warm.
• Centauri Dreams looks at moons of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt.
• Dangerous Minds looks at some photos of American malls taken in the late 1980s.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes a white dwarf that stole so much matter from its stellar partner to make it a brown dwarf.
• The Dragon's Tales notes Greenland may ( Read more... )

• Dangerous Minds looks at the oddly sexual imagery of zeppelins entering their births.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes a paper looking at ways to detect Earth-like exomoons.
• Imageo notes unusual melting of the Greenland icecap.
• Language Log shares an extended argument against Chinese characters.
• The Map Room Blog notes the hundredth anniversary of the Sykes- ( Read more... )

• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is concerned with Trump: what would happen if a terrorist attack occurred under his rule, would he actually be able to save money from changing foreign basing, do terrorist attacks help him in the polls?
• Towleroad notes the advent of marriage equality in Greenland.
• Window on Eurasia notes legal challenges to ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that yesterday morning's transit crunch led Uber to introduce surge pricing.
• Dangerous Minds links to the Tumblr blog Vintage Occult, which has a vast collection of vintage occult.
• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig notes how the television show Castle badly misrepresented the Geordie dialect.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a new ( Read more... )

• Gerry Canavan shares his curriculum for his course on the lives of animals.
• Centauri Dreams reflects on Pluto.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the predominance of "dead white guys" in sociology.
• Geocurrents notes the awkward position of Tatarstan, caught between Russia and Turkey.
• Joe. My. God. notes same-sex marriage will be available in Greenland ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Jim Coyle describes the current state of the Hans Island border dispute between Canada and Denmark.

Hans Island is a 1.2-square-km rock in the Kennedy Channel of the Nares Strait between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Denmark’s Greenland ( Read more... )

The Dragon's Tales linked to a press release reporting on the accelerated collapse of the glaciers of Greenland.

To track how glaciers grew and shrank over time, the scientists extracted sediment cores from a glacier-fed lake that provided the first continuous observation of glacier change in southeastern Greenland. They then compared the results ( Read more... )

Peter Levring and Christian Wienberg of Bloomberg note how the low price of oïl is dooming Greenland's hope of becoming an exporter, and with it, hopes of full independence from Denmark.

After decades of estimates that Greenland may be sitting on oil reserves big enough to meet almost two years of European demand, the Arctic island is throwing in ( Read more... )